Terms of Service

Stalwart Blue
Last updated: 21 August 2026
Effective: 21 August 2026

1. About these terms

These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of the websites, platforms and services provided by Stalwart Blue (“we”, “us”, “our”), a company registered in England under company number 15289659, whose registered office is at 48 West George Street, 2/3, 2nd Floor, Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP, UK.

In these Terms, the “Services” means our websites and our proprietary platforms, including ScaleBridge, OptiCap and StraOps, together with any associated APIs and services we provide. Some provisions apply only to a particular platform, and say so where that is the case.

By creating an account or using any part of the Services, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Services. If you accept on behalf of a company, fund or other entity, you confirm you have authority to bind that entity, and “you” means that entity.

2. Definitions

  • Account — the credentials and profile through which you access the Services.
  • Content — data, documents, financial information or other material submitted to, stored in or transmitted through the Services.
  • Connected Mailbox — an email account you authorise us to send messages from on your behalf.
  • Deal Information — information about businesses, transactions, valuations or opportunities made available through the Services.
  • Subscription — a paid plan giving access to some or all features of the Services.

3. Eligibility and accounts

You must be at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into binding contracts. The Services are intended for business and professional use only, and are not offered to consumers for personal, family or household purposes.

You must provide accurate registration information and keep it current. You are responsible for all activity under your Account and for keeping your credentials confidential. Notify us immediately at [email protected] if you suspect unauthorised access. You may not share or transfer your Account without our prior written consent.

We may refuse registration, or suspend or close any Account, where we reasonably believe these Terms have been breached or where continued access presents a legal, security or reputational risk.

4. Nature of the Services

4.1 No investment advice. The Services are information and workflow tools. Nothing provided through them constitutes investment advice, financial advice, tax advice, legal advice or a personal recommendation. We do not advise on the merits of any transaction.

4.2 No brokerage or intermediation. Stalwart Blue does not act as a broker, dealer, corporate finance adviser or agent for any party to a transaction, and does not arrange or bring about transactions in investments.

4.3 Not a regulated financial service. Unless expressly stated in writing, Stalwart Blue is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, and the Services do not constitute any regulated activity.

4.4 No offer or solicitation. Deal Information is provided for information only. It is not an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a financial promotion in respect of any security or business.

4.5 Your own due diligence. You are solely responsible for evaluating any opportunity, for your own due diligence, and for obtaining independent professional advice before committing to any transaction. Any decision you make is yours alone.

4.6 Accuracy. Deal Information is frequently supplied by third parties, including business owners and their advisers. We do not warrant that it is accurate, complete, current or fit for any purpose, and we are not liable for reliance on it.

5. Connected Mailboxes and outbound email

This section applies where a platform offers mailbox connection, currently ScaleBridge. Please read it carefully.

5.1 Your authorisation. You may connect your own email account so that messages you compose are sent from your own address, not ours. You may connect using OAuth (for example Google or Microsoft) or by supplying SMTP credentials.

5.2 Scope of access. Where you connect using OAuth, we request the narrowest permission necessary to send mail on your behalf. We do not request, and do not have, permission to read, search, delete or otherwise access the contents of your mailbox, your inbox, your contacts or your calendar.

5.3 Use of that access. We use your Connected Mailbox solely to send messages that you have composed, reviewed or expressly approved within the Services, and to send a test message at your request to confirm the connection works.

5.4 No advertising or profiling. We do not use data obtained through a Connected Mailbox for advertising, marketing, building user profiles, training or improving artificial intelligence or machine learning models, or any purpose unrelated to providing the Services. We do not sell or transfer that data.

5.5 Credentials and tokens. Access tokens, refresh tokens and SMTP passwords are encrypted before storage, are not shown again after entry, and are not accessible to our staff or administrators through the Services.

5.6 Revocation. You may disconnect a mailbox at any time within the relevant platform. Where you connected by OAuth you may additionally revoke our access directly from your Google or Microsoft account security settings, with immediate effect.

5.7 You are the sender. Messages sent through a Connected Mailbox are sent by you, from your address, in your name. You are solely responsible for their content, their accuracy, their recipients and their lawfulness. Stalwart Blue is not the sender of record and does not review, approve or endorse the content of your messages.

5.8 Compliance obligations. You must comply with all laws applicable to the messages you send, including the UK GDPR, the Data Protection Act 2018, the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (PECR), the EU GDPR and ePrivacy Directive where applicable, and the US CAN-SPAM Act where applicable. In particular you must:

  • have a lawful basis for contacting each recipient;
  • not send unsolicited bulk email, spam, or messages to purchased or scraped lists;
  • not use false, misleading or disguised sender information or subject lines;
  • honour opt-out and unsubscribe requests promptly; and
  • not use the Services to send messages that are unlawful, defamatory, harassing, deceptive or fraudulent.

5.9 Suspension. We may suspend your sending ability immediately and without notice where we reasonably believe this section has been breached, or where sending activity threatens the security, deliverability or reputation of the Services or their other users.

5.10 Provider terms. Your use of a Connected Mailbox remains subject to your agreement with that provider. Nothing here overrides those terms, and providers may suspend or restrict access independently of us.

6. Acceptable use

You must not, and must not permit any other person to:

  • use the Services for any unlawful, fraudulent or deceptive purpose;
  • access, or attempt to access, another user’s Account or data;
  • probe, scan or test the vulnerability of the Services, or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measure, except under a written authorised testing agreement with us;
  • scrape, harvest, crawl or systematically extract Deal Information or other Content;
  • copy, resell, sublicense or otherwise commercially exploit the Services or Deal Information outside your own permitted use;
  • upload malware, or anything designed to disrupt or damage the Services;
  • reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble any part of the Services except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law;
  • misrepresent your identity, authority or affiliation; or
  • use the Services in a way that imposes an unreasonable load on our infrastructure.

7. Confidentiality

Deal Information and other Content made available to you through the Services is confidential. You must keep it confidential, use it only to evaluate and pursue the relevant opportunity, and not disclose it to any third party except to your professional advisers who are bound by equivalent obligations.

Where you enter into a separate non-disclosure agreement in respect of a specific opportunity, that agreement applies in addition to this section and prevails in the event of conflict. These obligations survive termination of your Account.

8. Your Content

You retain all ownership of your Content. We claim no ownership over it. You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit, display and process your Content solely to the extent necessary to operate, secure, maintain and provide the Services to you.

You warrant that you have all rights necessary to submit your Content and that it does not infringe the rights of any third party or breach any law or duty of confidence. You are responsible for maintaining your own copies of anything important to you; we are not a system of record, an archive or a backup service.

9. Subscriptions, fees and payment

Certain features require a paid Subscription. Prices, billing frequency and included features are as set out in the Services or in your order. Payments are processed by our third-party payment provider; we do not store your full card details.

Subscriptions renew automatically for successive periods unless cancelled before the end of the then-current period. Fees are exclusive of VAT and other applicable taxes, payable in addition at the prevailing rate.

Except where required by law, fees are non-refundable, including for partial periods and for periods in which you did not use the Services. We may change pricing on not less than 30 days’ notice, effective from your next renewal; if you do not accept a change you may cancel before it takes effect. We may suspend access where fees are overdue.

10. Intellectual property

The Services, including their software, design, structure, text, graphics, and the Stalwart Blue, ScaleBridge, OptiCap and StraOps names and logos, are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.

Subject to these Terms and payment of applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your internal business purposes. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without restriction or obligation to you.

11. Third-party services

The Services integrate with third-party services, including identity and email providers, payment processors, and hosting and infrastructure providers. Those services are operated by third parties under their own terms and privacy policies.

We are not responsible for their availability, performance, security, acts or omissions. Interruption or withdrawal of a third-party service may affect the Services; where reasonably practicable we will notify you, but we are not liable for such interruption.

12. Data protection

Our processing of personal data is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

Where you upload personal data relating to third parties — including business owners, contacts and advisers — you act as controller in respect of that data and we act as processor. You are responsible for having a lawful basis for that processing and for providing any required notices to those individuals.

Where we act as processor, we will process personal data only on your documented instructions, apply appropriate technical and organisational security measures, and assist you as reasonably required with data subject requests. Where required, the parties will enter into a separate data processing agreement.

13. Availability

We aim to keep the Services available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may suspend access for maintenance, upgrades or emergency security work, giving advance notice where reasonably practicable. Unless expressly agreed in a separate written service level agreement, the Services are provided without any committed uptime.

14. Disclaimers

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Services and all Deal Information are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties or conditions of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

We do not warrant that the Services will meet your requirements, that defects will be corrected, or that the Services are free of harmful components. We do not warrant that any message sent through a Connected Mailbox will be delivered, will reach an inbox rather than a spam folder, or will produce any result. Nothing in these Terms excludes any warranty or condition that cannot lawfully be excluded.

15. Limitation of liability

15.1 Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited or excluded.

15.2 Subject to 15.1, we are not liable for any loss of profit, revenue, business, contracts, opportunity, anticipated savings or goodwill; loss or corruption of data; loss arising from any transaction you enter into or decline to enter into; or any indirect or consequential loss — in each case however arising and whether or not foreseeable.

15.3 Subject to 15.1, our total aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and the Services, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty or otherwise, shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total fees you paid to us in the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the event giving rise to the claim, and (b) £100.

15.4 You acknowledge that the fees payable reflect this allocation of risk, and that we would not provide the Services on these commercial terms without it.

16. Indemnity

You will indemnify and hold harmless Stalwart Blue, its officers, employees and contractors against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses and reasonable costs (including legal fees) arising out of or in connection with:

  • your Content;
  • messages sent through a Connected Mailbox using your Account, including any claim that they breached anti-spam, data protection or marketing law;
  • your breach of these Terms or of any applicable law; or
  • any transaction you enter into with any counterparty introduced or presented through the Services.

17. Suspension and termination

You may cancel your Subscription or close your Account at any time in accordance with the cancellation process in the relevant platform. We may suspend or terminate your access immediately where you materially breach these Terms, where required by law, or where your use presents a security, legal or reputational risk.

On termination your licence to use the Services ends, accrued rights and liabilities survive, and sections 4, 5.7, 5.8, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16 and 19 survive. We may delete your Content following termination in accordance with the retention practices set out in the Privacy Policy, so export anything you need before closing your Account.

18. Changes

We may amend these Terms from time to time. Where a change is material, we will give reasonable notice by email or through the Services before it takes effect. Continued use after a change takes effect constitutes acceptance; if you do not accept a change you must stop using the Services and may cancel.

We may modify, add or discontinue features. We will not materially reduce core functionality of a paid Subscription during a period you have already paid for without offering a pro-rated refund for the remainder of that period.

19. General

Governing law and jurisdiction. These Terms and any dispute arising out of them are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, save that we may bring proceedings to protect our intellectual property or confidential information in any competent court.

Entire agreement. These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any order or written agreement between us, constitute the entire agreement and supersede all prior discussions. Nothing in this clause limits liability for fraudulent misrepresentation.

No waiver. A failure or delay in exercising a right is not a waiver of it. Severance. If any provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary, or severed, and the remaining provisions continue in force.

Assignment. You may not assign or transfer your rights without our written consent. We may assign our rights on notice, including in connection with a reorganisation or sale of business. Third party rights. A person who is not a party to these Terms has no rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999. Force majeure. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control.

Notices. Notices to you may be sent to the email address on your Account. Notices to us must be sent to [email protected] and to our registered office.

20. Contact

Stalwart Blue — registered in England, company number 15289659
48 West George Street, 2/3, 2nd Floor,
Glasgow, Scotland, G2 1BP, UK
Email: [email protected]